[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick J. LoPresti) writes:
|> mcount() generates the call graph; I am talking about the statistical
|> sampling provided by the profiling timer. I understand why system
|> calls are not sampled, but I am not sure I like it. High-latency
|> system calls can have a big effect on an application's performance.
|> If your application is slow because it makes too many slow system
|> calls, there does not seem to be any easy way to find that out; the
|> results of gprof can even be misleading.
gprof is not for profiling the kernel. Only user time is counted.
Andreas.
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